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    "localId": "21870",
    "label": "Spoon with Animals",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.607"
}

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    "id": "21870",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.607",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Spoon with Animals",
    "description": "This miniature spoon with a double-curved end is decorated with a grazing boar on a plinth shown in relief. Over the bowl, a gazelle's head with large eyes is seen \"en face\" in relief.Spoons are common in the Predynastic period, but the figures carved on this piece are unusual. The animals may be related to the god Seth and the spoon may be some sort of medical-magical instrument.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 4th millennium BCE (Predynastic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.607",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "spoons"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.607_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.607_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.2,
            "height": 1.5,
            "depth": 0.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 4 13/16 × W: 9/16 × D: 1/4 in. (12.2 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm)"
}

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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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